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Anuradha Roy

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Anuradha Roy

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1967-01-01 （Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India）
Nationality
India
Languages
English
Residence History
Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India → Ranikhet, Uttarakhand, India

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Journalist, Editor, Publisher/Designer
Active Years
1990-2025
Affiliations
Permanent Black (co-founder), Oxford University Press (former employee), Stree (former employer)
Nominations
Man Booker Prize (2015 longlist) - Sleeping on Jupiter, Walter Scott Prize (2018 longlist) - All the Lives We Never Lived

Education

University of Calcutta
Country: India
University of Cambridge
Country: United Kingdom

Awards

Outlook/Picador India Non-Fiction Competition
2004
Work: Cooking Women
Organization: Outlook / Picador India
Result: winner
The Hindu Literary Prize
2011
Work: The Folded Earth
Organization: The Hindu
Result: shortlist
Man Asian Literary Prize
2011
Work: The Folded Earth
Organization: Man Asian Literary Prize
Result: longlist
Economist Crossword Book Award
2011
Work: The Folded Earth
Organization: The Economist / Crossword
Result: winner
The Hindu Literary Prize
2015
Work: Sleeping on Jupiter
Organization: The Hindu
Result: shortlist
Man Booker Prize
2015
Work: Sleeping on Jupiter
Organization: The Booker Prizes
Result: longlist
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature
2016
Work: Sleeping on Jupiter
Organization: DSC Prize
Result: winner
Tata Book of the Year Award (Fiction)
2019
Work: All the Lives We Never Lived
Category: Fiction
Organization: Tata Literature Live!
Result: winner
Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
2018
Work: All the Lives We Never Lived
Organization: Walter Scott Prize
Result: longlist
International Dublin Literary Award
2020
Work: All the Lives We Never Lived
Organization: International Dublin Literary Award
Result: shortlist
Sushila Devi Book Award (Best Novel by a Woman Writer)
2022
Work: The Earthspinner
Organization: Sushila Devi Book Award
Result: winner
Sahitya Akademi Award
2022
Work: All the Lives We Never Lived
Organization: Sahitya Akademi (India's National Academy of Letters)
Result: winner
Tata Book of the Year (shortlist)
2022
Work: The Earthspinner
Category: Fiction
Organization: Tata Literature Live!
Result: shortlist
Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize
2022
Work: The Earthspinner
Organization: Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize
Result: shortlist

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

An Atlas of Impossible Longing

2008 Novel (postcolonial) 320 pages

A multi-generational novel about longing and memory set in a small town in India, exploring lost love and questions of belonging.

memorylongingfamily history
Translations
  • Translated into eighteen languages

The Folded Earth

2011 Novel 240 pages

Set against earthquakes and loss, the novel examines personal grief and healing, receiving critical acclaim.

losshealingnature and humanity

Sleeping on Jupiter

2015 Novel 320 pages

Characters carrying past trauma meet and confront memory, justice and redemption. Winner of the DSC Prize.

traumajusticememory

All the Lives We Never Lived

2018 Historical fiction / Novel 320 pages

A novel tracing family pasts and personal choices against 20th-century historical backdrops. Winner of Tata Book of the Year and Sahitya Akademi Award.

historyfamilychoices and regrets

The Earthspinner

2021 Novel 288 pages

A delicate story themed around pottery. The novel enhanced her standing as a leading woman writer and won the Sushila Devi award.

creationartcommunity
Translations
  • French translation 'Le Cheval en Feu' praised by Radio France

Bibliography

  • An Atlas of Impossible Longing (2008)
  • The Folded Earth (2011)
  • Sleeping on Jupiter (2015)
  • All the Lives We Never Lived (2018)
  • The Earthspinner (2021)

Translations of Works

  • The Earthspinner - French translation 'Le Cheval en Feu'
  • An Atlas of Impossible Longing - translated into eighteen languages

Style & Themes

Literary Style
lyrical, descriptive prosenarration interweaving generations and memory
Recurring Motifs
memory and the pastloss and healingfamily and rootsart and creation

Legacy

Regarded as one of contemporary India's notable English-language novelists. Widely translated and prize-winning, known for works focusing on family history and memory.

Trivia

  • Co-founded the academic publishing house Permanent Black in 2000 with her husband Rukun Advani.
  • Her debut novel 'An Atlas of Impossible Longing' has been translated into eighteen languages.